18 June 2025, 19:54

By Andrew Marr

It looks very much as if the war between Israel and Iran is, as we suggested yesterday, escalating.

Donald Trump is now demanding Iran’s unconditional surrender, and added this afternoon: “that means I’ve had it. That means no more. That means we go blow up all the nuclear stuff. The next week is going to be big, very big...” but this being Trump, it could just be bluster.

He also said, “I may do it, I may not do it, I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do“ which sounds more like a way of trying to entice the Iranians to negotiate.

Good luck with that.

The supreme leader in Teheran, Ayatollah Khamenei said Iranians never surrender and the Iranian mission to the United Nations put out a statement saying that “no Iranian official has ever asked to grovel at the gates of the White House.

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